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	Harpagus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harpagus (or Harpagos), (Akkadian: Arbaku, Arbaces), was a Median general from the 6th Century BCE credited by Herodotus as having put Cyrus the Great on the throne through his defection to Cyrus II during the battle of Pasargadae.
		Harpagus suggested using camels as the front line against the Lydians in Cyrus II's war against Croesus, thereby scattering the Lydian cavalry (the horses panicked at the smell of the dromedaries).
		Harpagus was also known for innovations in engineering techniques, specifically, the use of earthwork ramps and mounds during sieges (a method later employed by Alexander the Great during his siege of Tyre) and for the use of mountain climbers to scale opponents' walls.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harpagus (963 words)

	Astyages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harpagus, unwilling to spill his own royal blood, gave the infant to a shepherd, Mitridates, who raised him as his own son.
		Harpagus, however, did not escape punishment, when Astyages fed Harpagus his own son at a banquet, leading to Harpagus' eventual mutiny against Astyages at the battle of Pasargadae in 550 BCE.
		However, as Harpagus was Astyages' general at the battle of Pasargadae, as his family were granted high positions in Cyrus' empire after the war, and as Harpagus went on to become Cyrus II's most successful general, it is possible he had something to do with the mutiny against Astyages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astyages (708 words)

	Cyrus the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harpagus, morally unable to kill a newborn, summoned a herdsman of the king named Mithridates and ordered him to dispose of the child.
		Shortly before the final battle between the two rulers, Harpagus advised Cyrus to place his dromedaries in front of his warriors; the Lydian horses, not used to the dromedaries' smell, would be very afraid.
		Harpagus captured Lycia, Cilicia and Phoenicia, using the technique of building earthworks to breach the walls of besieged cities, a method unknown to the Greeks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyrus_the_Great (3335 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 921 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In consequence of a dream, which seemed to portend that her offspring should be master of Asia, he married her to a Persian named Cambyses, of a good house, but of a quiet temper.
		A second dream led him to send for his daughter, when she was pregnant; and upon her giving birth to a son, Astyages committed it to Harpagus, his most confidential attendant, with orders to kill it.
		Harpagus, moved with pity, and fearing the revenge of Mandane, instead of killing the child himself, gave it to a herdsman of Astyages named Mitradates, who was to expose it, and to satisfy Harpagus of its death.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0930.html (1166 words)

	Legend of Cyrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Royal instructions were given to Harpagus, a Median nobleman and confidant of the king, that he should kill and dispose of the newly born child.
		They then presented Harpagus with the corpse of their still-born child, claiming that it was the prince.
		Harpagus vowed to avenge his son's death and encouraged Cyrus to seize his grandfather's throne.
	members.aol.com /ksmith9526/SSPersiaCyrusLegend.htm (705 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Cyrus the Great by Jacob Abbott
		In the mean time, Harpagus, though he had, at the time when he endured the horrid punishment which Astyages inflicted upon him, expressed no resentment, still he had secretly felt an extreme indignation and anger, and he had now, for fifteen years, been nourishing covert schemes and plans for revenge.
		Harpagus was present when he was taken, and he exulted in revengeful triumph over the fallen tyrant's ruin.
		Harpagus asked him what he thought now of the supper in which he had compelled a father to feed on the flesh of his child.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=cyrus&story=accession (2679 words)

	PERSIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Harpagus took the child, but his conscience would not allow him to be the instrument of its death.
		Harpagus disguised a trusted servant as a hunter and gave him a rabbit with a message for Cyrus sewn in its belly.
		Harpagus explained that the camels looked and sounded so strange and possessed such a superior stentch that the Lydian horses would bolt at the sight of them.
	www.worldhistory1a.homestead.com /PERSIA.html (6707 words)

	Harpagus
		According to the Histories of the Greek researcher Herodotus, who is the only source for Harpagus' life but lived a century after the events he is describing, Astyages had a dream about the son of his daughter Mandane and her husband Cambyses, Cyrus, which he took as an evil omen.
		During a battle that was (according to a later source, the geographer Strabo of Amasia) fought at Pasargadae, the Medes sided with the Persians.
		Before the last battle was to begin, Harpagus advised Cyrus to place his dromedaries in front of his warriors; the Lydian horses, not used to the dromedaries' smell, would be very afraid.
	www.livius.org /ha-hd/harpagus/harpagus.html (798 words)

	Herodotus' Persian Wars - (CAIS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Harpagus sent certain of his bodyguard, on whom he had the firmest reliance, to view the body for him, and, satisfied with their seeing it, gave orders for the funeral.
		[1.119] Harpagus, on hearing this, made obeisance, and went home rejoicing to find that his disobedience had turned out so fortunately, and that, instead of being punished, he was invited to a banquet given in honour of the happy occasion.
		While Harpagus was engaged in the conquest of Ionia, the Cnidians, wishing to make their country an island, attempted to cut through this narrow neck of land, which was no more than five furlongs across from sea to sea.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/herodotus-persian.wars/persian_wars_bk1_clio1b.htm (14736 words)

	CYRUS THE PERSIAN
		Harpagus' whole house was full of weeping; astonished, I went in; and immediately I saw a child lying there struggling and crying, adorned in gold and embroidered clothing.
		Harpagus did; he opened and saw what was left of his son: he saw this, but mastered himself and did not lose his composure.
		Harpagus marched against the city and besieged it, but he made overtures, and said that it would suffice him if the Phocaeans would demolish one rampart of the wall and dedicate one house.
	web.telia.com /~u85205781/cyrus.html (13489 words)

	Cyrus Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Harpagus was told to do this, but he decided that he would give the task to someone else, to Mitrades, the king's herdsman.
		Harpagus was punished by the king, by being made to eat his own son without realising it and Cyrus was expelled to Persia.
		Later on Harpagus, who was bitter and wanted revenge asked Cyrus to attack Media and told his that the Medes would put up little resistance.
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /essays/cyrus.htm (2357 words)

	Harpagus (Conan foe)
		Harpagus slew Sabo and then coerced Helliana to capture Conan and bring him to Arenjun.
		Helliana recognized Harpagus as the man who had assaulted her years before, and so she freed Conan and cured him with the white lotus.
		Harpagus crawled away, preparing to unleash a spell or two on the barbarian, but Helliana attacked him, tackling him into a large fire.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/harpag.htm (589 words)

	The Terrible Price of Disobedience
		Harpagus took pity, however, and gave the child to a herdsman whose own son had just died; he brought to the king the corpse of the herdsman’s son as proof that the deed had been done.
		But at the age of ten, the king’s grandson was seen taking part in a game with other children in which he playacted the part of a king.
		The king invited the servant to dinner at the palace and, unknown to Harpagus, had Harpagus’ own 13 year-old son killed and cooked.
	www.loyno.edu /~rspipes/chicken/price.htm (173 words)

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		When Harpagus saw me, he bade me take up the child speedily and go and expose it on the hills where the beasts are thickest; he said it was Astyages who had laid these commands on me, and he added many threats if I should disobey.
		Harpagus sent some of the trustiest of his bodyguard, and through their agency saw and buried the body that was the herdsman's child.
		Harpagus, on hearing this, did obeisance; and regarding it as a great thing that his offense had come out so well, and appositely, and that he was invited to dinner on such a fortunate occasion, went to his house.
	www.is.wayne.edu /mnissani/wk2.htm (5296 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 351 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		She wore it for a time, but at last her youngest son was seized with madness, and set fire to the house, in which she perished with all her treasures.
		Fellows, and is now deposited in the British Museum, is supposed to represent the taking of Xanthus by Harpagus, whose name is also said to occur in an inscription in the Lyciau language.
		27—29) relates a story about the answer of Harpagus to an embassy of the Asiatic Greeks to Cyrus, which is identical in substance (though the parable is different) with the story which Herodotus tells of the reply of Cyrus to the same embassy, (i.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1459.html (793 words)

	Harpagus Did You Mean harpagus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Harpagus was a Median general from the 6th century BC cred by Herodotus as having put Cyrus the Great on the throne through his defection to Cyrus II during the battle of Ecbatana.
		A member of the Median royal house, Harpagus first appears in the Histories of Herodotus as a courtier in service to King Astyages of Media.
		Harpagus was the one who suggested using camels as the front line against the Lydians in the war against Croesus, thereby scattering the Lydian cavalry (the horses panicked at the smell of the dromedaries).
	www.did-you-mean.com /Harpagus.html (852 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 121
		Harpagus, on hearing this, made obeisance, and went home rejoicing to find that his disobedience had turned out so fortunately, and that, instead of being punished, he was invited to a banquet given in honor of the happy occasion.
		On his reply that he had enjoyed it excessively, they whose business it was brought him the basket, in which were the hands and feet and head of his son, and bade him open it, and take out what he pleased.
		Harpagus accordingly uncovered the basket, and saw within it the remains of his son.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_121.htm (382 words)

	Herodotus: Book One
		Astyages puts Harpagus in command of the Medes; Cyrus' first victory is assured by defections among the Medes (127).
		Harpagus besieges Phocaea; the Phocaeans evacuate the city by sea (164).
		The Cnidian canal is forbidden by an oracle; surrender of the Cnidians (174).
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/Hum110/Hdt/Hdt1.html (2790 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Cyrus the Great by Jacob Abbott
		Harpagus replied that whatever the king might command it was his duty to do, and that, as his master had never hitherto had occasion to censure his conduct, he should not find him wanting now.
		Although Harpagus had expressed a ready willingness to obey the cruel behest of the king at the time of receiving it, he manifested, as soon as he received the child, an extreme de- [42] gree of anxiety and distress.
		Harpagus went home, trembling at the thought of the imminent danger which he had incurred, and of the narrow escape by which he had been saved from it.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=cyrus&story=birth (4637 words)

	King Cyrus of Persia in ancient history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When she arrived there, he put a guard over her, with plans to kill the child after she gave birth (*see Isaiah 45:10-13); for when the Magi had interpreted the vision they told him that the son of his daughter would reign over Asia instead of him.
		Harpagus, take the son born of my daughter Mandane, and steal him away to your house and slay him there.
		When Harpagus had reluctantly agreed, the child was given into his hands, wrapped in the swaddling cloth of death, and he weeping went quickly to his home.
	www.biblehistory.net /volume2/Cyrus.htm (1759 words)

	Who was Cyrus the Great? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Most commonly accepted of these is the tale of Herodotus that King Astyages had a dream warning him of danger from his daughter, his only child, so he wedded her to one of his most obedient soldiers, Cambyses, a Persian, and sent the pair to rule in distant Persia.
		When their son Cyrus was born, Astyages ordered another of his soldiers, Harpagus, to slay the child; but instead Harpagus had the boy brought up in secret by a peasant.
		Harpagus pretended a continued loyalty, but, being secretly determined on revenge, constantly urged his foster-child Cyrus to revolt against Astyages.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Story_of_the_Greatest_Nations_and_the_Worlds_Famous_Events_Vol_1/whowasc_bab.html (1695 words)

	Yazdgerd III - Dedicated to the Researchers of Iran
		Harpagus did not know what he was eating until they lifted the lid from the final platter, whereupon he saw his son's head, hands and feet.
		Harpagus, general of the Median army, was impassive to act accordingly to the king’s order.
		Harpagus convinced Cyrus that the Medes were ready to revolt against their king, who had become a despot.
	www.freewebs.com /yazdgerdiii/cyrusthegreat.htm (4701 words)

	Herodotus 1.106 - 140
		Though Harpagus promised Astyages that he would carry out his task as ordered, he shirked his duty and handed the baby over to the herdsman, Mitradates, with instructions to expose the child in the wilderness, and thus be rid of it.
		To punish the disobedient Harpagus, Astyages killed and cooked his son, and then served it to him at a banquet the same night.
		Convinced by Harpagus, Cyrus amassed a large force, marched on Media, and, once engaged with the Median army, won a swift victory due to a large number of Medes having deserted under Harpagus’s direction.
	www.lakesideschool.org /upperschool/departments/history/Faculty/gaul/Herodotus1.106-140.htm (513 words)

	Mazares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mazares then continued the conquest of Asia Minor, but died of unknown causes while on campaign.
		Cyrus then sent his leading general, Harpagus, to take his place.
		Harpagus completed Mazares' conquests of Asia Minor, Lycia, Cilicia and Phoenicia, using the hitherto unknown technique of building earthworks to breach the walls of besieged cities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mazares (380 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 113
		There, providentially, his wife, who had been expecting daily to be put to bed, had just, during the absence of her husband, been delivered of a child.
		Both the herdsman and his wife were uneasy on each other's account, the former fearful because his wife was so near her time, the woman alarmed because it was a new thing for her husband to be sent for by Harpagus.
		Harpagus saw me, and directly ordered me to take the child in my arms and carry him off, and what was I to do with him, think you?
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_113.htm (416 words)

	Persian History
		Harpagus, afraid to personally kill a child of the royal family, took it to a herdsman to expose on the mountains.
		In verifying Harpagus' actions, Harpagus admitted that he did not directly kill the child, and had not personally confirmed the death.
		Harpagus had the presence of mind to not blame the king for acting wrong.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/Herodotus/Persia.html (2986 words)

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